Compendium of Activities by Katelyn Chaney https://padlet.com/katelyn_chaney1/qwy7plrq1owzul0p A collection of activities to incorporate into lessons en-us 2020-11-10 05:36:33 UTC 2024-10-16 06:59:52 UTC hello@padlet.com KWL Chart katelyn_chaney1 https://padlet.com/katelyn_chaney1/qwy7plrq1owzul0p/wish/907159372
  • Grade: all grades
  • Subject: all subjects
  • Purpose: students can reflect on prior knowledge, it gives them a chance to set goals of what they want to learn for the lesson, and allows students to reflect on what they learned after a lesson.
  • Grouping: individually, partners, small group, or whole class
  • Instruction: 
    1. Students will be instructed to write what they know about a specific topic
    2. They will write what they want to know about a topic
    3. After the lesson, students will reflect on what they learned
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  • Grade: Pre K - 4th
  • Subject: Language Arts & History
  • Purpose: identify key elements of a story
  • Grouping: individual, partners, small groups, or whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will read a story about Thanksgiving whether it be fiction or non-fiction.
    2. They will write the title of the story/article  and the main characters on the stomach of the turkey.
    3. Students will identify key elements from the story and then write them in order on the turkey's wings.
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  • Grade: 2nd - 6th
  • Subject: Language Arts
  • Purpose: This activity requires students to retrieve prior knowledge and list different parts of speech
  • Grouping: Whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. Teacher will find a madlib online. It can either be a fun one or it can relevant to the lesson from history or science.
    2. Students will raise their hand and give an example for the part of speech that is required for one line in the paragraph.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: Language Arts, History, and Science
  • Purpose: This activity practices written language and vocabulary and can help students articulate what they are thinking.
  • Grouping: Whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will work individually and will write or draw something that they are prompted to on a sticky note. 
    2. The sticky note will be placed on the wall and students will all walk around and read all of the sticky notes.
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  • Grade: 1st - 5th 
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: This activity helps students   formulate questions and promotes writing development while using academic language
  • Grouping: individual, partners, small group, or whole class
  • Instruction: 
    1. Depending on the subject, students can use this activity to formulate questions about a given subject. 
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  • Grade: Pre K - 4
  • Subject: Language Arts
  • Purpose: Students will practice identifying and listing out the main events from a story. 
  • Grouping: Individual, small group, whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will read a fictional story.
    2. After reading the story, students - either individually, in groups, or as a class - will review the story and identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story. 
    3. Students will be able to identify the general characteristics of the beginning, middle, end of a story. They will also be able to see what purpose each element holds to the overall theme of the story.
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  • Grade: 1st and up
  • Subject: Language Arts
  • Purpose: Students will
  • Grouping: Individual 
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will correct incorrect sentences on a worksheet. 
    2. Depending on the grade level, the difficulty of the editing will increase. For example, a first grade class might just focus on capitalization and punctuation while a sixth grade class works on independent and dependent clauses.
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  • Grade: All
  • Subject: All
  • Purpose: this activity develops their reading, writing and oral language skills because they are writing down an answer and then explaining their answer to a partner. 
  • Grouping: individual and partner
  • Instruction: 
    1. Teacher gives students a prompt for them to think about. Students are given a couple minutes to think and write down their answers.
    2. Students will then turn to a partner and share their idea. They also listen to their parnters idea. Depending on the prompt and time limit, they can discuss and debate their partner's answer.
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  • Grade: 3rd and up
  • Subject: Language arts, Science, and History
  • Purpose: Allows students to practice communication and presentation skills and provides students with more practice with key terms and vocabulary.
  • Grouping: Small groups
  • Instruction: 
    1. Students will be put into small groups and given a topic to research and write a script on.
    2. Students will use their research on the topic to create a short informational podcast using key terms and concepts.
    3. The rest of the class will listen to the podcast to learn about the concept.
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  • Grade: 2nd and up
  • Subject: Language Arts & History
  • Purpose: Helps students with reading development, verbal inflection, and presentation skills.
  • Grouping: Small group or whole class
  • Instruction: 
    1. Students will read aloud from a script and act as if they are playing as a specific character.
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  • Grade: 5th and up
  • Subject: Language Arts, Science, and History
  • Purpose: This activity requires students to reflect on what they just learned in a creative way.
  • Grouping: Small groups
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will be put into groups of three.
    2. The group will create a "movie" based on a lesson that they just learned.
    3. Together, they will develop a script with characters and roles. 
    4. Students will film their skit and present it to the class.
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  • Grade: 5th and up
  • Subject: History & Science
  • Purpose: Requires students to retrieve prior knowledge quickly and practice using academic language
  • Grouping: Small groups
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will compose a list of key concepts and their descriptions.
    2. With those descriptions, the teacher will create a jeopardy game in which the description is listed under a category and is worth a certain amount of points.
    3. The class will be put into groups before playing the game.
    4. Each group will choose a category and an amount of points and the teacher will read the description.
    5. Students must answer the question with a question.
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  • Grade: 4th and up
  • Subject: History & Science
  • Purpose: This activity promotes active listening and allows students to practice note taking and using academic listening.
  • Grouping: Whole Class
  • Instruction: 
    1. Teacher will prepare semi-completed set of notes
    2. Teacher will present the materials orally
    3. Students will fill in the notes outline
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  • Grade: Pre-K - 3rd
  • Subject: English or History
  • Purpose: Students will critically think and write about the different elements within a story.
  • Grouping: Individual, partners, small group, whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. The class will read through a story
    2. Students will then identify the different elements of the story. They can either draw them or write them out. 
    3. Then, they will use the information in the boxes and create sentences using the sentence frames.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: Language Arts, Science, History
  • Purpose: This requires students to reflect on what they have learned and pull from prior knowledge. This activity helps with language development because they are writing their thoughts down.
  • Grouping: Individual 
  • Instruction: 
    1. Students will take out a blank piece of paper and write down as much as they can on a certain topic within a certain time limit.
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  • Grade: 3rd and up
  • Subject: Language Arts
  • Purpose: Helpful for students to develop their written language skills. It will also help students with word recognition. 
  • Grouping: Individual
  • Instruction: 
    1. Students will start with a suffix or prefix in the middle of a piece of paper.
    2. Students will come up with as many real words that have that particular suffix or prefix as they can.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: Students are critically thinking about the learning goals for the day and analyzing if they met the objectives in the lesson.
  • Grouping: Individual
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will stick a sticky not on their desk at the beginning of the lesson. 
    2. They will write one of the learning objectives for that day's lesson in their own words on their sticky note
    3. At the end of the lesson, the student will look at their learning goal and write on the back of the sticky note if they think they met that learning goal.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: This helps students with their critical thinking and helps them when it comes to communicating orally with one another.
  • Grouping: Partner and whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. Students work with the teacher in this activity.
    2. The class will look through the chapter of reading that they are going to read and locate key terms and concepts and discuss them with a partner.
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  • Grade: 3rd and up
  • Subject: History, Science, and Math
  • Purpose: This activity gives students the opportunity to define key terms. It requires them to think critically about academic language and put definitions in their own words.
  • Grouping: Individual
  • Instruction:
    1. Throughout lessons, students will look at key terms and their definitions. 
    2. The student will pick a certain amount of key terms to add to their vocabulary notebook. They will decide which words to put in the notebook based on what they think is most important to the lesson. 
    3. Students will write the definition in their own words.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: Requires students to reflect on what they learned and gives them more practice with the written language. It also helps the teacher check for understanding.
  • Grouping: Individual
  • Instruction:
    1. The teacher will provide the class with a question that is relevant to a lesson that was recently done. 
    2. Students will critically think about the question and write their answer on an index card.
    3. Students will hand their index card to the teacher as they leave the classroom.
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  • Grade: 1st and up
  • Subject: All
  • Purpose: This activity helps students to reflect on the day. It promotes reading & communication skills.
  • Grouping: Whole Class
  • Instruction:
    1. Teacher will create a jar of general questions about the students' day. Examples of these questions are: "What is one thing that you found fascinating during out history lesson today? What is one skill that you practiced today?"
    2. The teacher will pull out a question at the end of the day and read it to the class.
    3. Students will be given a few minutes to reflect on the question.
    4. Students will explain their answer to the teacher as they leave for the day.
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  • Grade: 2nd and up
  • Subject: Language Arts, History, & Science
  • Purpose: This activity promotes critical thinking and persuasive communication skills.
  • Grouping: Whole class
  • Instruction:
    1. The class is divided into two even groups. 
    2. One group goes to one side of the room and the other group goes to the other side of the room.
    3. Each group is given topics to be for or against.
    4. The 'value line' is in the middle of the classroom
    5. One group tries to convince the other group why they should agree with them. Depending on the grade level, the teacher could require textual evidence to back up arguments.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: This activity requires students to reflect and formulate an idea based on what is being taught. Then, they have to use communication skills to share their idea and listen to other's ideas.
  • Grouping: Whole Class
  • Instruction:
    1. Students write down something on a notecard that's relevant to what is being discussed. 
    2. Students get in two even lines and face one  another.
    3. Students share what is on their card with the person across from them.
    4. Students keep discussing and sharing ideas until the teacher says to switch.
    5. Students in one line shirt to the right and the person at the end of. the line goes to the front of the line. This rotation can be done as long as the teacher wants.
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: All subjects
  • Purpose: requires students to use critical thinking skills and allows teachers to check for understanding
  • Grouping: partners or small groups
  • Instruction: 
    1. print out previously covered vocabulary words and cut them into strips with one word on each strip
    2. put the slips in a bag
    3. have one student randomly pick a slip of paper from the bag and create a sentence using the word that they grabbed
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  • Grade: All grades
  • Subject: Language Arts, History, & Science
  • Purpose: This activity develops communication skills and develops critical thinking skills.
  • Grouping: Individual  & Partners
  • Instruction:
    1. Students will read through a passage and pick out 10 key terms or concepts that are important to the reading
    2. Students then take those 10 points and discuss them with their elbow parter. They will have to explain why they think that they are important.
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